Winemaker Notes
In addition to delicate fruit aromas, these wines are characterized by a little spiciness, a balanced body with power, and a refined elegance. They are perfect companions for a variety of foods. This wine, in particular, stands for a balanced richness and rounded intensity, with fine fruit and a zesty spiciness, making it a universal food match.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Sliced apples, lemons, fennel and wet stones on the nose of this fresh, minerally white. Crisp and bright, with a medium body and a precise, stony finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2024 Langenlois Kamptal Grüner Veltliner is deep, pure, refined and elegant yet also intense on the generous and slightly flinty nose. Fresh and savory on the palate, this Veltliner from various Langenlois vineyards is still nervous and has not come to rest. The acidity has a piquant, racy start, also due to the delicately releasing carbonic acid, which combines with salty minerality. Fresh and with fine bitter notes on the finish, it is still youthful and unsteady but with good potential. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in April 2025.
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Vinous
The 2024 Grüner Veltliner Langenlois is the village wine, grown on deep loess soils. Slight yeastiness swings creamily on the nose, joined by a touch of fern. The palate is juicy and full of pear-fruited brightness, but it homes in on lovely salty, ever so slightly peppery yeast on the mid-palate, underlined by subtle citric zestiness.
Fun to say and delightfully easy to drink, Grüner Veltliner calls Austria its homeland. While some easily quaffable Grüners come in a one-liter—a convenient size—many high caliber single vineyard bottlings can benefit from cellar aging. Somm Secret—About 75% of the world’s Grüner Veltliner comes from Austria but the variety is gaining ground in other countries, namely Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the United States.
Climbing north and slightly east of the Kremstal region, Kamptal has very little vineyard area bordering the Danube River (unlike Wachau and Kremstal, whose vineyards run along it). The region takes its name from the river called Kamp, which traverses it north and south. Kamptal’s densely planted vineyards represent eight percent of Austria’s total.
The area experiences wide diurnal temperature variations like the Wachau but with less rain and more frost. Its vast geologic diversity makes it suitable for various experimentations with other varieties besides Grüner Veltliner and Riesling, such as Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc (Weissburgunder), Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, St. Laurent and Zweigelt.
But the region is probably most noted for the beautiful and expansive terraced Heiligenstein, arguably one of the world’s top Riesling sites, as well as some of Austria’s most extraordinary Grüner Veltliner vineyards. Kamptal’s soils, which are mostly loess and sand with some gravel and rocks, make it suitable for Grüner Veltliner, so much so that actually half of the zone is planted to that grape.